Ok, I have a Snow Peak giga stove and I have found myself in some very windy conditions. I don't feel like dropping the cash for a wind screen, but I feel like I will save fuel by caring one. Any ideas for a homemade version that Snow Peak offers?

I tried making one just like what Snowpeak offers out of flashing and it melted. There is just too much heat in that area. A titanium version might be able to stand the heat.

I just use a doubled-up sheet of heavy duty foil wrapped 2/3 around the stove, canister, and pot - in the most traditional way - held down by a couple of rocks under a lip of the foil. It's simple, easy, and packs well. If you face the screen toward the wind and leave it 1/3 open, the canister doesn't get hot. It probably works better than the integrated Snowpeak windscreen.

The "frying pan" lid that comes with some of the snowpeak cooksets would also work. I have a 25 oz pot that came with such a lid.

I went on a quick overnight to Jeff. Park Saturday with my son for his birthday, and the wind made it a bit of a challenge to get our water boiled even witht eh heavy SP windscreen in place. It doesn't shield the flames very effectively, though admittedly, I was using a near empty canister - as I always do on short trips so I can use them up.

Hi Roger,I rarely use a canister stove so you would probably know better than I. That's in cold weather and would seem to be OK since the ambient temp. would mitigate any possible overheating; plus, the reflected heat would seem to keep the fuel warmer and make it more efficient. But in your experience, would you say it's also OK to enclose the canister during summer use? It won't overheat and be a potential danger?

P.S. When I use my Snowpeak Gigapower, I never use a windscreen. I really only use them for my alcohol stove.

There's no problem enclosing a canister during summer temperatures. Especially if you're only running the stove for a few minutes as most ULers do.

If you're going to cook for longer, or if it's hot out, just make a radiation shield. Cut a disc of foil or flashing with a hole in the middle, and put it on the canister like a collar before you attach the stove. This will reflect heat back upwards to your pot and keep your canister nice and cool. (Remember to check the canister temperature every so often, of course.)

> would you say it's also OK to enclose the canister during summer use? It won't overheat and be a potential danger?Well, I always use a windshield, but I ALWAYS monitor the temperature of the canister.

When boiling 1/2 litre for tea & coffee in the summer I use the windscreen with a 3/4 wrap to block the wind. The winsdshield plus a lid cuts the gas used by about half.

If cooking dinner for a while I usually add the radiation shield *in the summer*. However, in France this (Northern hemisphere) summer I never once used the rad shield - it was never hot enough to worry.

Hi Joshua,Just to clarify, I was referring to the above post with the fully enclosed windscreen. Not your original post. I was actually trying to point out that most designs for canister stoves are more like yours, with only the top of the stove enclosed and not the canister itself.